May 13, 2004
-- conscience? how quaint! --
The title of this entry is snipped from perhaps the absolute best piece of writing I have read in a long time.
Jeronimo DuBois sent me an email this morning about a new entry at the Tears of Things where he states (it) is unlike anything I've written on the blog so far. Long ago, Camille Paglia talked about expanding the boundaries of the English expository essay; I'm doing some of that here. This thing is surrealistic.
It's more than a surreal expository essay. It is brilliant. Not only does he take the art scene to task, but he does so eloquently and with a magnificent twist.
I urge you to take a few moments of your day and spend it with a few imprisoned and ailing Cuban dissidents. Take them with you to an Arizona art gallery where works by Cuban "artists" are being shown. Hear what they have to say. Smile with the humor of these Cubans who despite their predicament, despite the fact that they rot away in jails for speaking truths, still have that indomitable ironic wit. Breathe in their Cuban spirit.
If you read anything today, read "The Prisons Behind Lisa Sette Gallery: Cuban Art Series #6."
I promise you will take in more meaning than that of all my archives put together.
Gracias Jeronimo. The goosebumps will be with me for quite a while.
Posted by Val Prieto at May 13, 2004 07:47 AM
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Val,
You know it is quite ironic that I teach in East LA and deal with the immigration policy in a face to face way that no one really wants to talk about seriously.
I see and hear about the dissidents of Cuba trying to get to America to turn their backs on La Barba and their former home, only to be intercepted at sea and sent back. While hundreds of their fellow Latins enter the Western US with no thught for anything other than making a few hundred dollars and returning to Mexico for as long as the money holds out, and then sneak across the border for two or three months of day labor. Wash and rinse, repeat.
One is deported, the other is tacitly allowed to exist as "unavoidable". It is sickening that we continue to treat the economic refugees of Mexico and Central America so different and with so much preference than the political refugees of Cuba. Funny that most of the intellectuals of Cuba are free-marketeers why try to get Cuba to look more like the US, while the Mexican intelectals are Marxists who want Mexico to be more like Cuba.
Posted by: MunDane at May 13, 2004 05:05 PM
